Studio Ghibli is a Japanese animation film studio founded in June 1985 by the director Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata and the producer Toshio Suzuki. The company's logo features the character Totoro (a large forest spirit) from Hayao Miyazaki's film "My Neighbor Totoro". It has its headquarters in Koganei, Tokyo. Share your love of all things Ghibli!
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Hello, it’s me again, as you may know I’m still doing my university work, I wanted to highlight not only on Miyazaki but also Takahata on my project as he’s also responsible for a lot of movies that helped built studio ghibli’s legacy and identity, from what I understand Takahata’s inspiration was similar to Miyazaki’s as both take literary works like manga, books, etc for their movies and elements of Japanese culture and folklore but Takahata’s focus was way more oriented on the relationship of humans with nature and living alongside nature in harmony than in Miyazaki’s works (or at least that’s the impression I got from watching his documentary on his trip to Canada)
Does someone knows if he also used the three meters radium Miyazaki has for creating films or not? I would really like to know
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The three meters radium?
The three meters radium is an aspect Miyazaki uses to create a film, is about finding the extraordinary on the ordinary, finding the magic on everyday things and aspects of life for their familiarity, an example is my neighbor Totoro, a bus stop from Miyazaki’s neighborhood was inspiration for making the film (the famous scene where Satsuki and Mei are waiting and Totoro appears and waits besides them)
It’s how it was translated when I was watching the first episode of the documentary “4 years with Miyazaki” on my language so I don’t know if it has a different name in english thou
Where is that from? I can't seem to find any references to it online other than this thread.
Miyazaki was always an artist at heart and interested in drawing, while Takahata was more of a scholar, never being interested in the animation process but more so the writing and directing aspects. Both were heavily influenced by the French animated film The King and the Mockingbird.
From what I gathered from watching their films, Takahata had more of a focus on realism, people’s relationships with one another, and their relationships with nature. Miyazaki is more fantasy-driven with a bigger focus on industrialization and how it impacts our world, as well as the supernatural.
I have watched both Miyazaki’s and Takahata’s movies and I think both of their films always have a focus on either realism or fantasy or even a mix of both, so I personally wouldn’t make a difference on them regarding that aspect
From what I have gathered thou is that Takahata takes a bigger approach to drama in comparison to Miyazaki as it has been his work model that he has developed over the years thanks to his previous works Heidi, Marco and Ann of the green gables, so definitely the emphasis on human interaction with each other and nature is found there, Miyazaki’s works do also have a lot of drama and can definitely give you a feels trip but Takahata’s works are notorious for really wanting to hit you on the feels once the drama is set on the film, especially when it comes to sad scenes involving characters that are children, fireflies is the prime example of this
Both Miyazaki and Takahata have also worked with the supernatural as a common them along with elements of Japanese culture and folklore, Miyazaki with princess Mononoke and spirited away and Takahata with princess Kaguya and Pompoko